Education

Objectives:

• Recognize key history findings suggestive of different causes of altered mental status
• Recognize key physical findings suggestive of different causes of altered mental status
• List high-risk causes of altered mental status in adults and children
• Perform critical actions for high-risk causes of altered mental status

Overview:

• Altered mental status is a term used for a range of presentations
  • Sudden or gradual changes in behaviour
  • Disorientation
  • Confusion
  • Coma
• May be due to conditions that affect the brain or the brain itself
• Can be chronic psychiatric problems or dementia but must rule out other life-threatening causes first
• Delirium always requires a full assessment
  • Ask family about baseline mental status when possible

Goals:

• Designed for frontline pre-hospital or facility-based health care providers who manage acute life-threatening conditions with limited resources
• Designed to provide a systematic initial approach to managing acute, potentially life-threatening conditions even before a diagnosis is known

Objectives:

• Recognize the signs of difficulty in breathing (DIB)
• List the high-risk causes of DIB
• Perform critical skills for high-risk causes of difficulty in breathing

Objectives:
The core learning objectives of this module are to provide a basic understanding of the following:

• The Need for Trauma QI Programmes
• The Elements of Trauma QI Programmes
• Effective Trauma QI Programmes
• Summary and Conclusion

Objectives:
The core learning objectives of this module are to provide a basic understanding of the following:

• Review of the Benefits of Trauma QI
• Experience of Trauma QI in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• Experience of QI in Other Fields in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• Status of Trauma QI Globally
• Summary and Conclusion

Objectives:
The core learning objectives of this module are to provide a basic understanding of the following:

• The Role M&M Conferences Have in Improving Trauma Systems
• How M&M Conferences Can Be Utilized and Improved in all Circumstances, Including Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• Identifying, Recording and Responding to Poor Outcomes
• Summary and Conclusion

Objectives:
The core learning objectives of this module are to provide a basic understanding of the following:

• Basic Principles of Preventable Death Panel Reviews
• Constituting the Panel
• How to Prepare and Present Data to Panel Members
• Specifics of the Case Review Process
• Summary and Conclusion

Objectives:
The core learning objectives of this module are to provide a basic understanding of the following:

• How to Use Audit Filters
• How to Identify and Track Complications
• How to Identify and Track Errors, Adverse Events, and Sentinel Events
• How to Use Statistical Methods
• Summary and Conclusion